Saturday, February 12, 2005

The Ruby scripting language lets you execute system commands by simply enclosing them in backticks. This makes Ruby an excellent object-oriented replacement for shell scripts.

Here is a Ruby shell script that downloads your del.icio.us links (for a given tag) to a local directory for sync'ing to your PDA. del.icio.us is currently the hottest web-based bookmarking service -- super-easy-to-use and powerful (e.g. RSS feeds).